Improvement in beer-faucets



`UNrTED "STATES PATENT am ALBERT HALLOWELL, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,273, dated June 20, 1865.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be itknown that 1, ALBERT HALLowELL, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucets and their Connections, by which they are connected to a casl; or barrel; and I doihcreby declare the same to be fully described in the following .to enable afaucet to be readily affixed to a cask loribarrel when the latter may contain beer,.ale, or any other liquor,`and also to accomplish the fixation of the faucet therein without waste of the liquor, such as frequently andalmost always takes place during the process of driving afaucet against a bung or cork and into the bung-hole thereof.

Inthe drawings, A denotes a faucet or cock having at its rear extremity a male screw, a, projecting from a circular dislr or shoulder, b. The said screw c ,is tubular, and provided with an extension or projection, c, which is perforated radially and endwise with one or more holes.

The discharging end or branch of the fancet may be made in any well-known manner. As represented in the drawings, however, itis shown as provided with a male screw, d, to receive a coupling, c, of a pipe, f, from which a y handle, g, extends at or about at right angles to the axis of the said pipe. Thisihandle is for the purpose of enabling a person to hold the pipe f in a manner to prevent it or any extension of it from becoming twisted or revolved during the process of screwing up the coupling c.

ln conjunction with the faucet made with the-screw a and the projection c, or the equivalent thereof, I employ a screw-connection, B, provided with a valve, h, arranged `at its inner end and applied to a stem, i, which is furnished witha spring, Z, for driving the valve closely against its seat m.

In advance of the valve-stem the connec tion B has an open mouth, constructed with a female screw, n, for the reception of the screw a, of the faucet. The screw n is of such a length that during the process of screwing the connection-screw a into it the projection cshall be forced against the end of the valve-stern, so as to crowd the valve ofI" its seat. Besides the screw n, the connection B is made with a socketed flange or bead, o, and also with a male screw, p, arranged on its external surface,as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The connection may also have a tubular strainer orguard, r, surrounding the valve and projecting in rear thereof.

The connection B, when used, is to `he screwed into the head G of a caskor barrel, in manner as shown in Fig. 2, and to remain xed therein, such connection being held firmly in place by one or more screws extendingthrough its socketed bead or ange, and screwed into the barrel-head.

In this way it is intended thatbeer and wine casks may be fitted with the connection, which., when the faucets lare notin place in them, may have screw-caps, such as are shown in Figs. 3 and 4, inserted in them and their socketed beads, such cap operating to protect the valves of the connections from being accii dentally or otherwise opened by pressure against their stems.

In order to apply the faucet to the cask it will suffice to screwit into the connection B and closely up into the socketed bead thereof', in which case the faucet will open the valve, and so as to allow the liquor of the caslr free access to thebody of the faucet.

What I claim as my invention is as follows that is to say:

l. The faucet-connection B, as made with the two screws n and p, or their equivalents, provided with the valve and its seat, arranged substantially as specified.

2. The said faucet-connection B, as mad with the bead o, combined with the screws a and p, and the valve and its seat, arranged as described.

3. The said connection as made with the perforated guard or strainer r, the valve and seat, and the screws, arranged as specified.

E4. The faucet constructed with the screw a and the projection c,as arranged with the oonbeingr substantially as and for the purpose neetion B, provided with a valve arranged specified. within it, as specified.

5. The combination of the connection B, pro- ALBERT HALLOWELL' vided with a valve, and made with screws -u Witnesses: and pas described, with thefaucet constructed R. H. EDDY,

with the s'erew av and theprojeotion@,tliewhoie. F. P. HALE. 

